Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 03, 2012

“I’ll give you my stylists number.”

Sweet ! No muss in the mousse !

Maybe at that debate, Romney wins.

Beware the Hair !

Wasn’t Gordon Gekko the guy who said “Greed is good”? What percentage would Gordon Gekko pay in taxes?

Can anyone tell the difference between the candidate who made millions bankrupting profitable businesses and eliminating thousands of USA jobs, and the fictional Wall Street character who was a corporate raider convicted of insider trading? Take the quiz “Who Said It: Mitt Romney or Gordon Gekko?” at http://www.romneygekko.com/quiz/

Romneyoids rule.

Even with the lounge-lizard hair and the preppie connections, Mr. Nobody still couldn’t make the cut into the debate audience. Wonder how Rick would look in a Gekko-do.

what’s with the “Matt Rhoades” alias?

LWP, bite your tongue!

Please.

Pomade is making a comeback.

“Wasn’t Gordon Gekko the guy who said “Greed is good”? What percentage would Gordon Gekko pay in taxes?”#This must be a trick question. Gekko would pay NO taxes! He would be too smart for that!

Rmoney win? lol it’ll be a wild and quick ride to the Middle Ages if he does. Obama, well, it’ll take longer with Obama to get us back where the Elites want us. Rmoney will take us there in no time. do away with Medicare and Social Security, as Obama has promised, and watch America go back into the Dark Ages

Rmoney will “harvest” America in no time. and prove Marx was right on the money. lol

I think I need to be reeducated. I just realized that I was tutored by a Muslim. My psychology 101 professor was married to a Muslim woman. He converted, because he figured that being an agnostic Muslim was little different from being an agnostic Christian. I fear that his malign influence has ruined my psyche. If I can find him, do I have grounds to sue?

Oh, no, I just realized that my situation is even worse than I feared. My American History (up to 1861) professor was a Marxist sympathizer. He was a big fan of Gene Genovese, back when Gene was a Marxist, before he became a Catholic conservative. Does the fact that Gene eventually abandoned the dark side absolve me from the stain? I need to ask Rush Limbaugh.

leaving Mitt’s sideburns white is such an interesting choice.

LWP…Shhhh! You manifest what you fear!

I guess Obama’s national campaign manager has been under the radar too— Jim Messina. Most folks have probably not heard of him. Don’t know if GT will mention him but he is the Obama counterpart to Matt Rhoades.

I wonder if the sales of Zingers has gone up? You know, the raspberry flavored snack cakes by Dolley Madison? I do remember hearing that the sales of Etch a Sketch increased after that incident. I don’t really have a hankering for Zingers, snack cakes or otherwise, but I expect that I will tune in if I don’t have to do something else for my daughter or husband or mom…

Debates… the only reason I wish we had television. And I’ll be at church anyway.

You tube will be live streaming the debates, as well as some other places online.

And here I thought that I was the only one watching Willard’s hairdo. It started out solid dark, with just a little gray above the ears, with all of it pomaded. The gray area has been growing since the nomination, with strands of gray appearing elsewhere. The message: A reflective kind of guy who’s labored just like the rest of us. This charade tells all we need to know about the man. He’s quite a contrast with his predecessor Republican candidates since Nixon; whatever you think of them, they weren’t phonies. Willard is.

Left Wing Patriot- Obama has been President for the last 3.5 years. That gives him a lot of inside knowledge. Romney"s “debates” were against some of the most inept competitors possible. I watched all of the Republican debates, and they truly lacked any substance at all. Romney won because of his money, and because he was the least unattractive candidate. As far as the economy, the Dow is at it’s highest ever, almost 7000 higher than in 2008, Private sector hiring this month was 169,000. The voter suppression laws in Pennsylvania have been put on hold, and the Florida ones have not yet been enacted (nor are they likely to be before the election). I think that Romney has to score really big, but he’s blocked by his own party. Most people in this country aren’t as far right as the tea party, and Romney is caught between promising everything to the tea party, while needing swing voters to go overwhelmingly to his side. Not going to happen. Plus, Obama is not that bad a debater. He really doesn’t need a teleprompter, and he’s had plenty of experience as a state senator, a US senator, and President to handle any debates. Hillary Clinton was 100 times better than Romney (still is) and Obama won those debates.

@dinkytown

Surely the majority of history and economics academics were Marxist in the late 60s / early 70s? Over here you would have been ‘tainted’ if you were at the London School of Economics anywhere around that time, or studying history at Birkbeck under the late Eric Hobsbawm, et seq, ad infinitum.

I seem to remember that the USA thought the British government was very supportive during the years following 9/11. Our Foreign Secretary (= Secretary of State) at the time, you may remember, was Jack Straw. In 1969, Jack Straw was elected President of the National Union of Students, as the Broad Left (Socialist and Communist) candidate. Admittedly the only serious opposition at the time was Trotskyist, but still, it’s a good job that the ‘tainted’ approach to who you trust wasn’t being operated during Dubya’s time in office…

“My dad prepped with one of the Romney sons.”

Why does Romney need so many sons anyway? Couldn’t he function more efficiently and economically with only three, or even two? Lead by example, Mitt. Trim some of the fat! Limiting yourself to one wife is only a start.

Mitt and Ann hatched a bunch of chickenhawks to fill the ranks of those sheltered under the right wing in the coop. MItt will lay another egg tonight, scrambled no doubt, but the foxes sponsoring him won’t care, because they’re out to raid the nation, not just the one coop.

Even though I wouldn’t have voted him because of “party positions” on critical issues, John Huntsman was so much brighter, and responsible, and educated, and well, “human”, he would have made a much better candidate. However, the Republican “debates” in the primaries were such an insult to the intelligence of their “base”, or any thinking person, the outcome wasn’t much of a surprise.

Marie Antoinette said let them eat Twinkies?? Oh, no, that’s Mitt’s advice to the 47%, (actually the 99%) along with “can’t afford college, just borrow money from your parents”.

Actually, the debate should put Rove and Adelson on to represent Mitt, so the public can see the true power behind the hair.

Hey y’all, where’s John PIke and his internet “proof” that Obama’s a Muslim who as a child attended a madrasah (Muslim parochial school) in Indonesia? He promised to return here. He promised. He promised.

No matter who wins the election, I have faith that the nation will survive just fine. The outcome will affect a lot of the most vulnerable, though.The long term picture is fuzzier. Unless we stop thinking that anyone who has a job is “lucky”, we will decline. The only way to move people off of government dependency, is to have more jobs that support the middle class. The increased purchasing power of the middle class will boost corporate profits. Henry Ford understood that, but hardly any conservatives seem to get it. The Republicans seem determined to turn us into Brazil.

Leftwing patriot:πHang in there with your prediction that Romney’ll win both today’s debate and November’s election. “Don’t you let nobody turn you round.” “Follow the drinkin’ gourd.”

Largely, at least, in the Caiman islands. The caiman is a small kind of small alligator, which, as everybody already knows, is related to the gekko lizard. Gordon Gekko is a “lounge lizard” who proclaimed the current prevailing economic unregulated “free market” philosophy in America: GREED IS GOOD.

To PI and MTeacher- I am really not trying to prove anything at all. Except for my own edification. What I have done os air these for debate. Honest and educated debate. When Pres Obama first came out as a potential candidate in late 2007 or early 2008 therewere so many stories and quotes flying around that there was no way to sift it out. I have done my best to parse the truth from innuendo but, honest;y, I am still having trouble doing it. For all I really know he was born on a Metro Rail while his mother was on the way to Chicago Hope. Sorry, I really hate it when people get flippant about my comments and I reacted.^^

What happened to the firsthand account by Pres Obama’s grandmother, the Kenyan one, who claimed to have been there when he was born in Kenya. I know I’m feeding the trolls. I’m sorry about that. But we never heard anything from her again, that I recall. There were many more such as the picture I saw captioned to the effect that Obama was a young student in a Madrasa in Indonesia.^^I’ll continue to research to the best of my limited ability and pray that I will be forgiven for feeding the trolls. God bless all.

I might if I were a lot younger but I am forced to acknowledge silent bigotry against older folk.

Your answer to the Madrasa was exactly what I found in a Hubpages article from doing a Yahoo search. Thank you for the explanation on the Grandmother.I still do not understand why publications from the nineties put him in Kenya at birth. Perhaps because his biological father was Kenyan.

The above should have been a reply to LeftWingPatriot. Sorry

All I can say is I, for one, am delighted… yes delighted, I say… because tonight I have two clear choices. I can either watch the Boston Red Sox vrs. New York Yankees or Tampa Bay Rays vrs. Baltimore Orioles !

“I moved here to South Carolina from …”

I move the hell out of there in 1980 when I had my parole transferred here to the Bay Area. I got a 10 year prison sentence and four five-year sentences for selling less than $60 worth of dope. That’s why if I’m elected Pres. I’m putting South Carolina back under Reconstruction.

I sure don’t remember any great paying jobs there, maybe at the Savanna River Project, (Atom bomb plant) But then you have a governor that proudly hates unions more than any governor in America.

When I move there in ‘61 they put the Confederate battle flag on top of the Statehouse during the sesquicentennial celebrations, after about 20 years of people complaining, they moved it to the statehouse grounds and I bet it’s still there.

If you ever get a chance you might want to visit Abbeville in Anderson County, it was the site of a double lynching during that lynching era. It blew my mind when I found out, Abbeville is such a quaint little Maberryesque town.

My brother and sister-in-law are doctors who hate Obamacare. Still, they intend to vote for Obama because they trust him more than Romney to do what is right for the country. Maybe they will change their minds after the debates, but right now I am very proud of my brother.

@π — hopefully LWP knew that I only said “Bite your tongue!” in joking reference to his just prior forecast of a Romney win.

Not long after that, someone else said “LWP…Shhhh! You manifest what you fear!”Same idea, different words.

I don’t comment on Doonebury much, or often join the political fray…

But I was brought up not to tempt fate….I can’t even say something like “If Romney wins” without saying “If, God forbid, Romney wins.”

LOL …If I offended you, LWP…. I apologise. I certainly didn’t mean to!

Any hair is good at Rick’s age.

“Sometimes my hope that the human race might someday actually mature grows very dim…”πYour entire post, but especially the above-quoted sentence, rang a concordant bell deep within me. I’m 72 years old, and my faith in human nature has lessened dangerously. What with overpopulation, human-augmented global warming, exploitation of the masses for “greed is good” gain, war (especially war), etc., I fear we won’t last long enough for the sun to balloon out and swallow the earth in 4.5 billion years or so.πNot that earth won’t outlive our Homo sapiens species. We’ve only been on-planet for 2 million years. You may think that’s a long time, but in terms of so-called “deep time” or geological time or evolutionary time, it’s extremely short. It’s less than 2 thousandths of the time left till the sun balloons out, boils the oceans away and melts the rocky rest into oblivion. πMeaning: Our species will destroy itself long before the sun will obliterate the planet. We’ll be gone along with 90% to 99% of the other species that we’ll destroy before we destroy ourselves.πMeaning: Earth will survive for more than 2000 times longer than we will have been around by the time we expire. This leaves a long long time for earth to re-evolve a whole new panoply of species. Maybe some of it will be intelligent. Maybe smarter than we are even at our best (think Einstein).πMeaning: Ever heard of intelligent plants?πShiver.

What part of SC are you in?

“Seneca”

That’s where John Edwards started out Redkaycei, his dad in the mills (remember them?) They wouldn’t let Seneca play the Lions after Daniel beat their sǝssɐ and the Wildcats were poor sports about it, I’ll never forget it. Oh, did I say (a million times) that I went to the same HS with Lindsey Graham?

Nobody’s mentioned it yet, but the Giants are in the play-offs, and that must be a sign for Pelosi.

Since my Cubs are never in it, – I’m a true masochist – A Red Sox and a Cubs fan – then by all means go Detroit !!! Anyone who can beat the Yankees, is my favorite team !!!

I told you so.

Romney won the first debate. We’ll have to see how the polls are affected. For the second presidential debate, Obama will have to do some harder punching. That narrow percentage of voters who remain “undecided” are fickle and easily swayed by small, even irrelevant things.πCase in point: In the first Kennedy-Nixon debate (1960), Nixon won on debating points, but Kennedy looked better on TV. As a result, Kennedy went from a small polling deficit to a small lead over Nixon.πAlas, for I favor Obama over Romney. OTOH, I’m not one of the tiny percentage of voters in the middle.

Have y’all noticed that guy’s hair’s slick as dog dookie in the sunshine?

Good to see that DNFTT seems to be working. As usual, the troll is spouting his non-factual, ideological opinion as fact.

I watched the post debate commentary on MSNBC. I thought that Ed Schultz and Chris Mathews were going to stroke out from the Presidents passive response to some of Romney’s obvious attempts at denying his past positions. Rachel Maddow was impressed with the way Mittens ran rough shod over Jim Lehrer.